BUZZ, BUZZ!

NZ Truth, Issue 1146, 17 November 1927, Page 7

BUZZ, BUZZ!

Summer Pests At Sanatorium

The attention of the Health Depart, ment is draxen to the fact that at the, Pukeora Sanatorium, near Waipawa, hordes of mosquitoes ma^e their nightly raid on the premises to the detriment of patients. DUKEORA is a sanatorium set aside for T.B. patients, who cannot be expected to effect a complete or even partial cure when N their night's rest is broken with the insistent buzz of winged insects. Apart from this, the bites inflicted by the mosquitoes are anything but trifling, and are liable to cause infection of some other virulent disease. Complaint has been made but the only solace the suffering inmates haoe received has been a direction to put iodine on the bites. Further than this no relief has been forthcoming", and patients have been sending to the local druggists for supplies of other remedies. Patients should be supplied with nets and effective steps taken by the authorities to combat the breeding of the mosquitoes m this locality. Every year the pcs 4 ts visit Pukeora, but now, even as the summer approaches, no effort has been made to combat the evil. , Surrounding the sanatorium are several swampy gullies which are proving excellent breeding grounds and also running through the farm area is an open drain m which thousands of mosquitoes breed, owing to the water being m a practically stagnant state. In the daytime swarms can be seen hovering about the stretch of water. The disposal of rubbish there also requires looking into by the department. At a distance of some 500 yards from the sanatorium and near the main road is a rubbish tip which is a glaring eyesore and a harbor, for vermin. No trouble is taken m any way to disguise the "dump" or prevent it becoming the home of rats. That mosquitoes are deadly disease carriers there is no gainsaying and out of the one hundred patients m the sanatorium only a bare half dozen nets have been provided. As the hot weather has still to come, the question is being asked: What will the mosquitoes be like m midsummer? It is up to the department to get busy and investigate the matter without delay. aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiililliiniiiillliiiiiiitiiiiiniiiniililllimi j